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Monsanto Under Fire in South America

The controversial Zionist corporation named Monsanto is under fire again after being accused of making people sick by contaminating the food sources in Argentina with pesticides. Here is the article from rt.news.com

A soybean field in the locality of Perez Millan, 200 km from Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AFP Photo / Daniel Garcia)

Monsanto denies its pesticides behind Argentine health problems

Monsanto has denied that health problems in Argentina are caused by its pesticides, insisting that its products are safe. It rejects an AP report that it is to blame for an increase in cancer rates and birth defects.

Monsanto has denied that health problems in Argentina are caused by its pesticides, insisting that its products are safe. It rejects an AP report that it is to blame for an increase in cancer rates and birth defects.

Reacting to an AP report investigating the effects of Monsanto products in Argentina, Monsanto called for more government control and attacked the credibility of the research.

If pesticides are being misused in Argentina, then it is in everyone’s best interests – the public, the government, farmers, industry, and Monsanto – that the misuse be stopped,” the St. Louis, Missouri-based company said.

Monsanto also reiterated that glyphosate – a chemical used in the pesticide Roundup – was proven to be safe. Company spokesman Thomas Helshcher dismissed the correlation between use of pesticides and a rise in ill health as lacking in validity.

The absence of reliable data makes it very difficult to establish trends in disease incidence and even more difficult to establish causal relationships. To our knowledge there are no established causal relationships,” Helscher said.

People hold signs during one of many worldwide “March Against Monsanto” protests against GMOs and agro-chemicals (AFP Photo / Fred Dufour)

AP carried out interviews across Argentina with doctors and people who had suffered harmful effects from Monsanto’s pesticides. They found that it many places regulations were flouted by farmers and pesticides were used within 30 meters of populated areas, instead of the recommended minimum of 500 meters.

More worryingly, the study found that in the soy-producing province of Santa Fe in northern Argentina cancer rates were two to four times higher than the rest of the country. Furthermore, Researchers also found high rates of thyroid disorders and chronic respiratory illness.